The Sunday Edition: As Above, So Below
The processes that take place in the Cosmos, take place on Earth as well.
In the beginning, God takes a part of Themselves, says The Word and it explodes into Creation. Infinite waves transform into infinite particles when God observes them as Good.
As God watches, each of these particles chooses to venture one way—instead of all other ways—and particles join together into groups.
What made me enter that coffee shop instead of another? What made me push my way into a conversation between three people I did not know? Did I make that move because God was watching me (to) do it? Did I choose to invite them to see my artwork because God observed it as a good thing to do?
Groups do what groups do…they act and interact often toward a specific goal. After the goal is reached, the group drifts apart. OR If the group grows too large and unwieldy, it implodes and then explodes. Either way, disintegration happens.
Sometimes, one group will come upon another, and the two groups either join together or they battle, and other kinds of change and mayhem take place.
These processes take place on Earth just as they do in the Cosmos.
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For many years. scientists shared data and research over electronic file transfer (FTP) communication lines between universities. Then visionaries created graphical interfaces (GUIs) for the rest of the world, so everyone could share information and ideas with family, universities, friends—and even foes.
In an ideal internet, individuals would randomly go one way, instead of all others, simply based on what they observe (read and explore) and choose to connect with.
Discussions of artwork led to discussions of galleries, online art auctions, joining online groups, and getting to know the other artists, writers, editors, and creators.
Internet groups go through the same cycles as the grouped particles of the cosmos. And, as in the cosmos, when a group gets too big to sustain itself, it implodes and then explodes, or it implodes (self-absorption) and sucks into it everyone close by—the equivalent of Black Holes on the Internet and in the earthly life: Mobs. Cults. Extremist groups. Groups of denial, apathy, and skepticism. Absolutes and inflexible ideologies.
In time I learned that the online group I joined originated with a philosphy and political ideology which goes against my hopes and beliefs. There were collisions, repulsions, damage done, and eventual disintegration, at least by me. But the experience deepened my awareness and my capacity to accept differences—and appreciate knowing people different from myself. It expanded my consciousness.
I suspect, when all is said and done, the value of this self-absorbed destruction will have great benefit to the cosmos, too. ‘Self-absorbed destruction’ already satisfies physicists who were worried that Einstein had been wrong about Dark Matter. Mathematically, they had proven Dark Matter exists. But they could not find where…until recently: the amount of Dark Matter contained in the Black Holes of the cosmos is just the right amount of Dark Matter to satisfy Einstein’s prediction.
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God does not waste energy.